Reinhold Schein

Reinhold Schein (* 1948 in Lindau ) is a German literary translator .

Life

Reinhold Schein studied German and history at the University of Cologne , worked at various adult education institutions in Germany and as a lecturer for German language, literature and regional studies at the University of Pune and the Banaras Hindu University in India. He translates contemporary Indian literature from English and Hindi into German. In addition to novels and short stories, he has also translated non-fiction books on politics and society, mythology, religion and spirituality. On the board of the Indian Literature Forum V. he is committed to making contemporary literature from India and its neighboring countries better known in the German-speaking area. He also writes his own articles on German-Indian literary relations and reviews new publications from the South Asia region in various magazines and forums.

Translations

Manuka Wijesinghe : A Man of the Middle Way , Roman, Heidelberg 2019
Dilip Kumar Roy / Indira Devi: The beggar princess. The life of Mirabai - drama in five acts , Hamburg 2016
Sudeep Chakravarti: Highway 39. Reports from India's rebellious northeast , Heidelberg 2014 (translated with Anna Petersdorf)
Malashree Lal / Namita Gokhale (Ed.): In Search of Sita: New Views in Indian Mythology , Heidelberg 2013
Ruskin Bond : Stories from the Heart of India , Klagenfurt-Vienna 2013
Geetanjali Shree , May, Heidelberg 2010
Uday Prakash : The girl with the yellow umbrella , Heidelberg 2009 (translated together with Ines Fornell and Heinz Werner Wessler)
Ruskin Bond: A flock of pigeons , Heidelberg 2010
Habib Tanvir : Agra Basar , Heidelberg 2007 (translated together with Heinz Werner Wessler)
Chitra Fernando : The Perfection of Giving , in 'Die Horen', Volume 188 (1997), pp. 173-185
Shashwati Mazumdar: Goethe's method in his examination of the Orient , in 'India in the Present', Volume V, No. 1–2, ICCR, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 1–35
Swami Jnanananda Giri: The Transcendent Journey , Hamburg 2015
Bithika Mukerji: Matri Lila. Shri Anandamayi Ma . Your life - your teaching , Lautersheim 1998
David Godman , Life According to the Words of Sri Ramana Maharshi . The spiritual biography of Sri Annamalai Swami , Interlaken 1996
Mata Amritanandamayi : Conversations with Amma , Vol. 2, Interlaken 1995
Mata Amritanandamayi: Conversations with Amma, Vol. 3. From the fetters of the ego to freedom of the self , Interlaken 1996
Henri le Saux (Abhishiktananda): Paths of Bliss. Encounters between Indian and Christian mysticism , Munich 1995

Own publications

How do we cross rivers? Stories and poems from the Indian subcontinent, edited by Ines Fornell and Reinhold Schein, Heidelberg 2016
Imagination and Reality: Images of India in German Literature, in "Südasien", issue 1/2014 - 1/2015, Bonn 2014/15, also in: https://www.academia.edu/24690802/Imagination_und_Wirklichkeit._Indienbilder_in_der_deutschsprachigen_Literatur
Enchantment and Repulsion. Two Austrian Littérateurs in Banaras, revisited in Banaras: Scholarly Pilgrimages to the City of Light , ed. By István Keul, Wiesbaden 2014

Ruskin Bond . Portrait of an Anglo-Indian author, contribution to the symposium “The power of Indian literature in shaping society in India”, Königswinter July 8-10, 2011

Stefan Zweig's journey to India and his excursion into Indian philosophy, published in “India in the Present”, Volume V, No. 1–2, ICCR, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 35–61

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personal data
SURNAME	Schein, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH	1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lindau